Sustainability of Diets in Mexico: Diet Quality, Environmental Footprint, Diet Cost, and Sociodemographic Factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the current intake of sustainable diets globally and specifically in middle-income countries, considering nutritional, environmental and economic factors.

Objective

To assess and characterize the sustainability of Mexican diets and their association with sociodemographic factors.

Design

Dietary data of 2,438 adults within the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012 by integrating diet quality measured by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2015), diet cost, and four environmental indicators were analyzed: land use (LU), biodiversity loss (BDL), carbon footprint (CFP), and blue water footprint (BWFP). We defined healthier more sustainable diets (MSD) as those with HEI-2015 above the overall median, and diet cost and environmental indicators

SUBMITTER: Curi-Quinto K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9185856 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature